The woman set to be richer than Bill Gates

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You probably haven't heard of Gina Rinehart — the 57-year-old Australian widow — but you'll know the people her wealth is set to eclipse.Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Carlos Sim are currently rated as the richest people alive by Forbes magazine, while Lakshmi Mittal is the UK's richest person and sixth-richest overall.

Facebook Steals

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Facebook has overtaken Microsoft to become the second most popular website in the UK after Google, while recent celebrity super-injunction scandals such as that involving Ryan Giggs saw Twitter's user numbers soar in May, according to the latest stats on such things. 

Green Lantern 2

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Green Lantern may not be setting the box office alight, however, plans are already underway for a sequel to the superhero flick.

Sega hack hits over 1.3 million users

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Hackers have stolen personal information belonging to 1.3million Sega customers including email addresses and passwords, the video games developer has confirmed, making it the latest in a string of games firms to suffer major online security breaches.

Apple's iPhone 5

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Apple is rumoured to be considering introducing a new social networking application on the iPhone 5 that will rival Facebook and Twitter.

Australian Dinosaur had UK double

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A 5cm-wide (2in) fossil may have something big to say about how dinosaurs ranged across the Earth.

The specimen is the first such dinosaur identified in Australia but one that is nearly identical to a UK creature.The 125-million-year-old neck vertebra belonged to a spinosaurid - an animal with a crocodile-like snout that it probably used to prey on fish.

This suggests northern and southern hemisphere dinos had a lot more in common than previously thought.

Flying in a Transparent Plane

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Transparent cabins, seats that mould around your body and virtual reality games in aircraft may not be a flight of fancy after drawings of an Airbus concept plane could look in 2050 were unveiled. 

Facebook loses 6M U.S. users

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Facebook may continue to gain users, but the world's biggest social network isn't gaining them as quickly as it has been and is actually losing users in the U.S.Facebook gained 11.8 million more users last month alone, according to a study by Inside Facebook. While that's a lot of new users, it's less than the 13.9 million new users who joined the site in April, or the 20 million gain during some months in the past year.

Codemasters Hacked

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customers' emails, personal details compromised

The spate of cyber attacks to have hit the games industry has worsened, as DiRT 3 publishers Codemasters' website goes offline with the leading British firm admitting it was hacked last week - with customers' details potentially stolen. 

The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim

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As wend our way through the noise and confusion of E3 we’re always interested in knowing what developers and PR people are looking forward to in the world of gaming. It’s seldom what you’d expect, as our unscientific poll found Skyrim to be the most highly anticipated of the show.

Given the gargantuan time commitment needed to see everything in the game we wouldn’t have guessed it to be the game of choice amongst professionals, but apparently they’re willing to make the time when a game looks this good.

E. coli outbreak

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The EU health commissioner has said the current E. coli outbreak is limited geographically to northern Germany and does not need Europe-wide controls.

John Dalli also warned against releasing unproven information on the outbreak, saying it spread fear and adversely affected farm producers.

He was speaking ahead of emergency talks by EU agriculture ministers.

5 questions to ask about tablet security

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A poll conducted late in 2010 by ChangeWave Research found the number of organizations giving employees tablets for work would double in the coming twelve months. The research found 14 percent of businesses polled expected to buy tablets for employees in the first quarter of 2011, up from 7 percent of companies who supplied staff with tablets in the last quarter of 2010.

Sony apologises for website hack

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the second massive data breach at Sony, following an April hack which targeted credit card information on its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Network, has resulted in over 150,000 people's passwords, names, e-mail addresses, addresses and phone numbers from SonyPictures.com and Sony BMG's websites, being posted online. 

Review: X-Men

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Director: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, January Jones, Kevin Bacon

Certificate: 12A

Synopsis: When the CIA discovers the existence of Mutants, telepath Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is charged with recruiting a team to oppose the evil mutant Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and the mysterious Hellfire Club. But not all of Xavier’s team share his vision of peace with humanity as the powerful Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) becomes convinced of mankind’s intolerance of Mutants…

Milky Way 'clone' captured

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The bird's eye view of NGC 6744 gives a good idea of what our own galaxy would look like to a passing space traveller.

The spiral galaxy is around 30 million light years away in the southern constellation of Pavo, the Peacock.

In the new image from European Southern Observatory astronomers it is seen almost face on, so that the striking spiral arms are clearly visible.

NGC 6744 would almost be an identical twin of the Milky Way were it not for its size.

While our own galaxy is roughly 100,000 light years across, it has nearly twice that diameter.

Apple offers iWork importing details for iOS devices

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An update to one of Apple's applications usually brings new support documentation, and the Tuesday updates to the mobile versions of iWork are no exception. To coincide with the updates to Pages,Numbers and Keynote, Apple posted more than a dozen new and revised Knowledge Base articles that deal with its mobile productivity apps.

Mobile phones can increase your brain activity

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Scientists from the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, US, found that 50 minutes of mobile phone use was associated with increased 'brain glucose metabolism' - a marker of brain activity - in the region of the brain closest to the phone antenna.

It's the best direct evidence so far that mobile phone use can affect the brain - although the researchers stress that there's no evidence either way of whether the increase in activity has any health effects.